United Airlines
There are concepts in this post that are incredibly important. These posts explain key features on routing rules, stopovers, and award booking tricks.
By reading one of these posts, you may understand why your ticket wasn't booking or get a better idea for your next crazy booking.
Read moreRouting rules with United award tickets are completely unpublished. However, I've spent a heck of a lot of time trying to figure them out. Here's what you need to know, everything from out of print and in print.
Read moreThis is one of the most bang for the buck redemptions in terms of miles. You can cover a ton of ground for a mere 25k miles. Or 40k in Business Class. The idea is that a flight within the Oceania to Oceania region on the award chart is incredibly cheap despite how much ground needs to be covered.
Basically we flew from Guam to Rarotonga for 40,000 miles roundtrip in Business Class, however, there's really nothing direct from Guam to Rarotonga, and in fact you can't even really do it with 1 or even 2 connections. Thus we layed...
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Recently Wandering Aramean came out with a post talking about an issue he had booking a ticket for a friend. Eventually, an agent told him that there was now a limit of 4 segments (3 connections) each direction.
Meanwhile, I noticed tons of people saying that they had trouble booking tickets with United. And the reasoning was all over the board. No "circle trips", "you can't cross both oceans", calling them round the world trips, you're no longer allowed two open-jaws, no backtracking, just because, etc...
Most of them didn't make sense. Well, sort of. The one that seemed to...
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